Being in the well-thawed tundra of Canada for the last week — and NOT because they’re out of the playoffs, no ma’am — has kept me from paying attention to most Tigers games. Yet here I sit, finding out that a three-game streak was snapped by Oakland last night, meaning they somehow won three games in there. Like, consecutively. In all fairness, it was their first 3-game skidless since July 24, when they won … four in a row!

So there, a baseball update. We now return you to your comfortably numb bouts of Lions, Wolverines, EMU Eagles, and mayoral special elections.